Any tips for a new modder?

[DogOfMan 8]

Hi guys,

There's just so much I like about this game, that instead of the annoying bits making me go over to Cities: Skylines, I wanted to see if I can enhance the game and mod the annoying bits away. I have actually bought Cities: Skylines but it just seems to lack personality in comparison. If I can't shape SimCity 2013 to my desires then Cities: Skylines is always there as a back-up I guess.

I'm currently fumbling my way through, my main aim is to change the roads to UK roads. I appreciate there is a EU road pack out there, but it's just not the same! Here are some ideas, I was wondering if any experienced modders out there could point me in the right direction on these, perhaps let me know if some of them just simply aren't possible? That'd save me a bit of time!

1. Change road textures/painted lines to realistic UK streets (will see how far I get with https://gamebanana.com/tuts/11515).

2. Change road intersections/painted lines to realistic UK intersections, perhaps remove some crossings - we don't have crossings at every intersection on every road, this is generally for the busier areas/roads. Maybe I'll remove all the crossings from all the roads and add plop-able crossings. Note that right now I'm a total noob at this!

3. Might add a new dirt road or increase the width of the existing one, perhaps also increase depth of the lot on the dirt road - dirt roads in real life can have large houses and farms on them so why not in the game?

4. The holy grail for me would be to make traffic drive on the left.

5. Add a plop-able guard house for luxury estates - perhaps it's possible to modify a police patrol car lot into a guard house that only patrols a designated luxury estate, arresting criminals within that estate and dropping them off at the police station - but this might be too ambitious.

6. Add or change a park to a farm or field with stable and horses.

 

Do you think any of these are impossible?

thanks guys

[Q_Man 0]

Hey there, I cannot help you but, just wanted to say I wish there were lots of modders for this game, I love it and I played cities skylines but maxis did something to this game thats so much more 'fun'. I Think there was another group that want to start modding this game again but I dont know if they are active but not talking on this website because they gave invites to discord or something. Anyways hope you mod it